Two tube map questions

Hello,

1) I think it's to do with 'tidying up' the end of the Dissie. It's a difficult place to have a line terminate - in map terms, I mean! - and there seems to have been some problems in deciding how to do it until about 1965.

For instance, in the mid-fifties, the Dis was on the left, with the line terminating in the middle of the Met and Circle lines. Some even had it terminating above the Met.

By the late fifties you can see that the Dis heads 'north' on the left of the Circ, then actually crosses over the Circ at Paddington to terminate 'below' the Circ.

By the mid-sixties it's the 'standard' layout that we know - and it's a much neater way of terminating that bit of the Dis.

2) I'd hazard a guess that not all Pic or Dis trains stopped there? I'm sure someone I know very well will be along before too long with a barrage of timetable info to prove or disprove this theory! ;D

;D You know me too well; but as you're the map laydee and I'm the TT bod the only thing I can suggest it relates to is the non-stopping pattern. At various times, both the Piccadilly and the District have non-stopped Barons Court - but as the whole subject of District non-stopping merits an entire 14 volume book the barrage of TT information isn't forthcoming (and the tribe of lodgers are just about to drag me off the the 'medicine shop' ).